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Ministry of Ayush announces setting up of Academic Chair in Ayurvedic Science at Western Sydney University, Australia
It will help in translating research outcomes to integrate it with public health care delivery system to have credible evidences of our scientific practices: Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha
The Ministry of Ayush has formally announced setting up of Ayurveda Academic Chair based at Western Sydney University’s NICM Health Research Institute, with tenure for a period of three years. Dr. Rajagopala S., Associate Professor & Head  All India Institute of Ayurveda , New Delhi has been selected for the post of Academic Chair in Ayurvedic Science at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush met the Australian delegation led by Prof. Barney Glover, Vice Chancellor & President, Western Sydney University and others. Shri Pramod Kumar Pathak, Special Secretary, Dr. Manoj Nesari, Advisor , Prof. Tanuja Nesari, Director, AIIA, Dr. Vidyarthi Director MoA, Dr. Rajagopala S and other officials from MoA along with Ms. Paramita Tripathi, Joint Secretary , Ministry of External Affairs were present on this occasion.
On this occasion, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush said, “This is a great step and I am sure that this chair will strengthen our collaborations in promoting academic and collaborative research activities in Australia. This will also help in translating the research outcomes to integrate it with public health care delivery system to have credible evidences of our scientific practices.”
Prof. Barney Glover, Vice Chancellor & President, Western Sydney University acknowledged that this collaboration will help in bringing together Western medicine and Ayurvedic Science.
The Academic Chair will undertake academic and collaborative research activities in Ayurveda, including herbal medicine and yoga, as well as design academic standards and short-term/medium-term courses and educational guidelines. It will provide academic leadership in demonstrating and fostering excellence in teaching, research and policy development related to Ayurveda, within the robust Australian regulatory frame work, and develop strategies to promote the translation and integration of evidence based Ayurveda medicines into conventional healthcare.
The Ministry of Ayush has taken concerted efforts for promoting and positioning Ayurveda and Yoga as the soft power of India. To facilitate the same, Memorandum of Understandings  has been signed for Ayush Chair with 16 foreign countries. MoA has also developed a Central Sector Scheme for the promotion of International Cooperation  with the mandate to promote and strengthen awareness about Ayush Systems of Medicine, to facilitate international promotion, development and recognition of Ayush Systems in foreign countries and to support international exchange of experts.
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Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Ministry of Shipping launches new website-
Ministry of Shipping has revamped its website shipmin.gov.in and launched it on 30th April, 2020. The new website is based on open source technology and is deployed on NIC cloud Meghraj. The website is designed as per Guidelines for Indian Government Websites  issued by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India. The new website has a well designed and dynamic Homepage. Social Media Integration with better video uploading facility is a new feature in this website.
Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare
Shri Kailash Choudhary addresses Valedictory function of Pusa Krishi Vigyan Mela
In five years, agriculture budget jumped five fold: Shri Choudhary
The Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shri Kailash Choudhary has said doubling the farmers’ income by 2022 is a priority of the Government. A number of schemes have been launched by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi towards fulfilling this goal, he said. Shri Choudhary was addressing the Valedictory function of the Pusa Krishi Vigyan Mela-2020 here today.
The Minister said as per the National Sample Survey Office  report for 2013-14, farmers’ average monthly income stood at Rs. 6,426; at present, as per the last survey available for 2016-17, it stands at Rs. 8,167. “I am confident the target set by the Prime Minister will definitely be achieved,” he said.
Shri Choudhary said before 2014, the budget for agriculture ranged between Rs. 25,000-30,000 crore, but the budget for agriculture in the next financial year has crossed Rs. 1,50,000 crore. “What was earlier being given to farmers in five years, our Government has earmarked more than that in a single year’s budget,” he said.
Lauding ICAR for organising the Farmers’ Fair, Prof. Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Ayog, expressed satisfaction that during the three-day fair the sale of seeds has crossed Rs. 45 lakhs. India is exporting 6-7% of its produce, he added.
In his address, Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education  & Director General, ICAR, said more than 80,000 farmers have taken part in the Krishi Vigyan Mela this year. He said under the "Mera Gaon, Mera Gaurav” scheme 13,500 villages are being covered. Agriculture scientists go to these villages every month, talk to farmers and see what problems they are facing and also learn from their experience and give their feedback and suggestions to the ICAR. Krishi Vigyan Mela is also an opportunity for farmers to learn from each other.
On the occasion, Shri Choudhary and other dignitaries released ICAR publications.
Ministry of Steel
DSP ORGANIZED ‘DURGAPUR GRAMEEN NRITYA SANGEET PRATIYOGITA – 2020’
Kolkata, January 24, 2020.
A 2-day long ‘Durgapur Grameen Nritya Sangeet Pratiyogita – 2020’ was organised under Corporate Social Responsibility  scheme of Durgapur Steel Plant in the auditorium of ‘Silpangan’ - a Skill Development Centre at the DSP Township, during 21st & 22nd January, 2020. Nearly 40 teams comprising of 557 participants from the surrounding villages including Model Steel Villages developed under CSR scheme of DSP participated in this year’s competition. The felicitation program of winners of this competition was held at the auditorium of ‘Silpangan’ on 22.01.2020. Dignitaries present on the occasion were Mr. AV Kamlakar, CEO, ISP with additional charge of CEO, DSP & ASP including other senior officials of DSP and audience in large numbers. The program started with CEO, Mr. Kamlakar and other senior officials inaugurating the ceremonial lamp. Later Mr. Kamlakar in his speech spoke at length on the richness and vividity of the Indian culture including unity in diversity in all spheres and walks of life. He also reiterated the DSP’ CSR activities and commitment. Mr. Kamlakar and others dignitaries also felicitated the folk artists. It may be known that the ‘Grameen Nritya Sangeet Pratiyogita’ is organized under DSP’s CSR scheme for the past several years to promote the pristine rural culture and talent from the surrounding villages.
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Ministry of Steel
SAIL declares consolidated net profit of Rs 4339 Crore in Q2 FY’22
The Steel Authority of India Limited , under Ministry of Steel has declared the financial results of the company for the second quarter  and H1  of this financial year  today.
Key highlights of SAIL’s performance during Q2 FY’22:
- Crude Steel Production : 4.468 Million Tonnes
- Saleable Steel Sales : 4.280 Million Tonnes
- Best ever Quarterly EBITDA, Profit Before Tax  and Profit After Tax .
- Gross borrowings at Rs 22,478 Crore as on 30.09.2021 as against Rs 35,350 Crore as on 31.03.2021, which is a reduction of Rs 12,872 Crore during H1 FY’22
- Company's board has approved an interim dividend of Rs 4 per share for FY’22 to the shareholders.
SAIL’s Financial Performance at a glance

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20642
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26827
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47469
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25991
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20643
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26828
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47471
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25993
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6674
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7248
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13921
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6741
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7290
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14031
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5145
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5753
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10898
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3850
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4304
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4339
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Ministry of Finance
Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman attends 6th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of New Development Bank through video-conference
Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs and India’s Governor in New Development Bank , Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman attended the 6th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of New Development Bank through video-conference in New Delhi today. The meeting was also attended by Governors/Alternate Governors of Brazil, China, Russia and South Africa.
Due to the current pandemic, this Annual Meeting of NDB was organized in virtual mode. This year's Annual Meeting theme was “New Development Paradigms: The Evolution of Infrastructure” which is well aligned with its mandate.
The Finance Minister underscored India’s quick response to limit the impact of the pandemic and to undertake massive vaccination drives which are resulting in a ’V shape recovery’. Smt. Sitharaman also highlighted that the world’s largest vaccine drive by India is under way and till date, , India has supplied 63.9 million doses of made-in-India COVID vaccine to 80 countries including 10.4 million doses of the vaccine as a grant.
While acknowledging the Bank’s achievements and progress made over the last six years, Smt. Sitharaman highlighted NDB's role in countercyclical lending through a $10 billion Emergency Assistance Programme for supporting the member countries in fighting the COVID pandemic. The Finance Minister also stressed the need for NDB to maintain and improve upon the ratings assigned by international rating agencies through adequate capitalisation, high quality governance and prudent management.
The Finance Minister encouraged the NDB to facilitate private sector participation, explore more innovative financing structures, discover co-financing opportunities with other MDBs, develop a pipeline of bankable projects, and promote environmental and social safeguards to enhance the sustainability of infrastructure, etc.
Highlighting the role of Development Financial Institutions  in infrastructure financing, she mentioned that India is going to set up a new DFI with initial paid-up capital of around $3 billion with a lending target of $69 billion in next three years. She also suggested NDB to develop a synergistic relationship with these institutions that share its development priorities to achieve greater results.
NDB, a multilateral development bank was set up by the BRICS countries  in 2014 with the objective of mobilizing resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in the BRICS as well as other EMDCs of the world. The Bank has been operationalised in 2015, with its Headquarters in Shanghai, China. NDB has so far approved 18 projects of India for an amount of $6,924 million.
Ministry of Finance
Over 1,10,019 loans extended since launch of ‘Stand up India’ scheme since its inception
Over 1,10,019 loans have been extended since the launch of ‘Stand up India’ scheme as on 31.01.2021 since its inception and beneficiaries can get a loan of ₹ 10 lakh to ₹ 1 crore to start or increase their business.
This was stated by Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
Giving more details, the Minister stated that Stand Up India Scheme was launched by the Government on 5th April, 2016 and subsequently extended up to the year 2025. The Scheme facilitates bank loans between Rs. 10 lakh and Rs. 1 crore to at least one Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe borrower and at least one woman borrower, per bank branch of Scheduled Commercial Banks , for setting up greenfield enterprises in the manufacturing, services or the trading sectors.
Ministry of Defence
DRDO & Indian Navy conduct successful maiden test trial of indigenous Air Droppable Container ‘ADC-150’ from IL-38SD aircraft off Goa coast
Defence Research & Development Organisation  and Indian Navy conducted the successful maiden test trial of ‘ADC-150’ from IL 38SD aircraft off the coast of Goa on April 27, 2023. ‘ADC-150’ is an indigenously designed and developed Air Droppable Container with 150 kg payload capacity. The trial was conducted to enhance the naval operational logistics capabilities by providing quick response to meet the requirement of critical engineering stores to ships , which are deployed more than 2,000 kms from the coast. It reduces the requirement of ships to come close to the coast to collect spares and stores.
Three DRDO laboratories - Naval Science & Technological Laboratory , Visakhapatnam; Aerial Delivery Research & Development Establishment , Agra and Aeronautical Development Establishment , Bengaluru - have been involved in the development of ADC-150 container. The crucial flight clearance certification was given by Regional Center for Military Airworthiness , Kanpur headed by Centre for Military Airworthiness & Certification , Bengaluru.
Secretary, Department of Defence R&D & Chairman DRDO has congratulated the scientists and the Indian Navy for the successful trial of ADC-150.
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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Results of Preliminary Round of Fit India Quiz announced; 3 Schools from Maharashtra Top Performers
KV ONGC Panvel from Raigad, Mumbai City’s Queen Mary School and PG Garodia School from Maharashtra top Preliminary Round
Mumbai, 25th Januray 2022
The results of the Preliminary Round of the first-ever Fit India Quiz, India's biggest sports and fitness quiz for students was announced today. Harshit Anand of Kendriya Vidyalaya ONGC Panvel stood first in the Preliminary round, while Tarushi Mittal of Queen Mary School stood second.
Among the other schools that qualified in the Preliminary round are:
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CHHATRAPATI SHAHU VIDYALAYA
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NANDED
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OXFORD THE GLOBAL SCHOOL
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PUNE
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KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA 9BRD AFS PUNE
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GD SOMANI MEMORIAL SCHOOL
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NAGPUR
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RELIANCE FOUNDATION SCHOOL MOUDA
The national toppers of the Preliminary round are from Uttar Pradesh. Divyanshu Chamoli of Delhi Public School, Greater Noida won the top spot followed by Shashwat Mishra of Sunbeam School, Lahartara, Varanasi.
13,502 schools from more than 626 districts across the country participated in the preliminary round of the Fit India Quiz, organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Students of 361 schools across 36 States and Union Territories have now been shortlisted for the State Rounds.
The Preliminary round of the quiz was conducted by the National Testing Agency. Top scorers of the Preliminary round will move into the state round and compete to become their respective state champions.
The 36 school teams  will then move to the National Round that would take place later this year and would be telecast on Star Sports and webcast on multiple social media channels.
The winners of the quiz at each level would win cash prizes  and the honour to be called India's 1st Fit India State/National level Quiz Champion. The Quiz has a prize money of 3.25 crores which will be given out to winning schools and students at various phases of the quiz.
The main aim of the quiz is to create awareness among students about India’s rich sporting history and to also tell them more about India’s centuries-old indigenous sports and our national and regional sporting heroes.
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Ministry of Jal Shakti
Policy Regarding Use of Treated Sewage Water
The National Water Policy-2012 mandates recycle and reuse of water as general norm and advocates treatment to specified standards before reuse of waste water. It provides for properly planned tariff system to incentivize reuse of treated water in various sectors including industries, agriculture and others. It mentions that reuse of urban waste water from kitchen and bathrooms, after primary treatment should be encouraged in toilets ensuring no human contact.
Besides, a National Framework on Reuse of Treated Waste Water has also been adopted by Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation. The framework will be a guiding document for the States to formulate their Reuse Water Policy and implement the same in a time bound manner. A draft policy template has also been developed as part of the framework to aid the preparation of reuse policy by the respective State Governments.
Arth Ganga initiatives being implemented as part of Namami Gange programme inter-alia has one of component for monetisation and reuse of treated waste water for irrigation and industrial purposes. Various interventions are considered under Arth Ganga component for reuse of treated waste water by entering into MoUs with various Ministries/Departments/PSUs and implementation of Actions plans thereof.
Government of India through the Power Tariff Policy 2016 has also mandated all Thermal Power Plants to use the treated sewage water from Sewage Treatment Plants situated within 50 kms radius for non-potable purposes.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Shri Bishweswar Tudu in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Finance
Income Tax Department conducts searches in Kerala
The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 05.01.2022 on two groups, engaged in the business of quarry operation. More than 35 premises spread across districts of Kottayam, Eranakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad and Kannur have been covered in the search operation.
During the course of the search operation, various incriminating documents and digital evidences have been found and seized, including a parallel set of books of account recording the entries of actual sales and receipt of cash. These evidences have clearly revealed the modus operandi being followed by the quarry operators as they are indulging in large scale suppression of sales made in cash including the fact that these transactions are not recorded in the regular books of account of the group.
The correlation of these evidences also indicates that unaccounted cash so generated is systematically invested in acquisition of immovable properties, used for the business of cash loans, and unrecorded capital investments in other businesses. The search team has also gathered evidences of on-money payment for purchase of properties and substantial cash deposits in undisclosed bank accounts. The assessees of the group have been found to have sold immovable properties without duly accounting for the capital gains arising from such transactions.
The search action has resulted in seizure of unaccounted cash of more than Rs 2.30 crore.
So far, the search has led to the detection of estimated unaccounted income to the tune of Rs. 200 crore.
Further investigations are in progress.
Ministry of Finance
Statement on Monetary Policy Committee Meeting-October, 2019
Government has noted the reduction in repo rate from 5.40 percent to 5.15 percent announced by the Monetary Policy Committee  and believes that this will complement the recent measures taken by government to accelerate growth.
Government has also taken note of the revised growth projections of the MPC at 6.1 percent for 2019-20 along with growth projections made by other bodies including the IMF, ADB etc.
Government has further taken note of higher projection of headline inflation by MPC for 2019-20, which is within the band of 3-4 percent and well within the target range.
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Paradip Port signs off 2022 by posting record monthly cargo volume in the month of December
The New Year 2023 began at Paradip Port with a bang as Team PPA signed off 2022 by clocking highest ever monthly cargo throughput in the history of all Major Ports in the country, with all time record cargo handling of 12.6 MMT in December, 2022. Shri P.L. Haranadh, Chairman, PPA congratulated the Team PPA for this magnificent performance. The New Year 2023 is going to augur well for the Port, as it is all set to cross the coveted 100 MMT cargo handling mark, in the month of January itself. The Port is poised to set all time record cargo handling of more than 125 MMT in current fiscal. Till December, 2022 PPA has handled 96.81 MMT cargo against 83.6 MMT in the corresponding period of previous fiscal. Various system improvement measures, introduced by the port during this year, fuelled growth to the tune of 15.5% over last year. Coastal Thermal Coal handling has shown a remarkable 58.11% growth in comparison to previous fiscal and it also constitutes about 31.56% of total cargo volume handled at the Port. Paradip port is emerging as a coastal shipping hub of the country and has plans even to coastal ship thermal coal to power houses, located in Rajasthan, UP and Haryana.
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Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Amid lockdown HIL  limited eying big orders from African countries
Despite enormous logistic and other challenges posed by COVID-19 lockdown, HIL  limited, a PSU under Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, is making all efforts to ensure adequate supply of insecticides to farmer community in the country and at the same time eying big export orders of DDT from African countries.
HIL has written letter to ten southern African Development Community  for supply of DDT in view of warning issued by World Health Organisation about increase in Malaria cases in the region in coming months.
During the lockdown period till 7th May in the country, HIL produced 120.40MT, DDT Technical, 226.00 MT DDT 50 percent WDP, 85.00MT Malathion Technical, 16.38MT Hilgold and 27.66MT formulations so that the farmer community may not feel the heat of lockdown. Apart from this Malathion Technical production is also continuing for Locust control programme. Continues supply of malathion technical to ministry of agricultures locust control programme in Rajasthan and Gujrat is Done. DDT 50percent wdp dispatched to Odisha  as per NVBDCP supply order.
Manufacturing units of HIL are running by maintaining social distancing and with minimum manpower as per Standard operating procedure -SOP in this regard. Sanitization level in all these units has been increased. All workplace, plants, trucks and buses entering factory are being sanitized frequently.
During the last week company’s total sale stood at Rs.278.82 lakh. This included the sale of agrochemicals, fertilizers and seeds. Online tender’s processing and procurement activities are also being carried out.
Ministry of Communications
Cabinet approves MoU between India and Viet Nam on Joint issue of postage stamp
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has been apprised of the joint issue of a postage stamp between Department of Posts and Viet Nam Post.
Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications and Viet Nara Post mutually agreed to jointly issue Postage Stamps on India-Viet Nam: Joint Issue on the theme "Ancient Architecture". The joint stamps were released on 25-01-2018.
The Commemorative Postage Stamps on India-Viet Nam: Joint Issue depicts Sanchi Stupa of India and Pho Minh Pagoda of Viet Nam. A Memorandum of Understanding  was signed between postal administrations of India and Viet Nam for this joint issue on 18-12-2017.
Prime Minister's Office
PM condoles demise of Padma Shri awardee Shri Nanda Prusty
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the demise of Padma Shri awardee Shri Nanda Prusty Ji.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said;
"Pained by the demise of Shri Nanda Prusty Ji. The much respected “Nanda Sir” will be remembered for generations due to his efforts to spread the joys of education in Odisha. He drew the nation’s attention and affection a few weeks ago at the Padma Awards ceremony. Om Shanti."